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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Tim Muth notes that a government-run anti-poverty program has, so far, been successful in increasing school enrollment.
Adam Isacson explains that aerial fumigation has caused Colombian coca growers to plant their crop in Colombia's national parks and that new proposals call for extending the fumigation to the parks or recruiting manual eradicators to dig the plant up.
Bob Glass says the ballot counting continues in Costa Rica while José Daniel of elecciones2006.com hopes that this year's close count won't serve as an excuse to implement electronic voting in 2010.
Azrael on the identity politics of being from a Sinhalese and Tamil heritage, and the constant labels one counters.
Nepali Netbook on the US-Nepal relations affecting the peace process -”In a recent barrage of interviews, the Maoist supremo has all but conceded that but for the Americans, his people already would have let a hundred flowers bloom across Nepal.”
Democracy for Nepal puts forward an idea for a demosphere - “It is the demosphere. It is an informal network of blogs, websites, and digital citizens who support democracy and want to empower local democracy activists. It is a digital ecosystem.”
The Organic Brew comments on the cartoon related violence in Pakistan - “As usual, whilst the ‘liberals’ stand by motionless, as the engines of government stand hostage to the tyrannies of the religious establishment, another piece of society falls and dissolves into the brimming ocean of intolerance, of violence and cruelty.”
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...